Visiting Past Anisha (Week 11)

Hello fellow survivors!

I'd like to transport you back to Week 4, and to my post cleverly entitled "So Far, So Good". At this point, I was feeling pretty good about how the semester was going. Of course this was before the disaster that was the TA strike and Assignment 2 (yes, I associate both of those events to be equivalently as horrible and tramatisizing).

I'd like to quote myself: "I hope this post doesn't jinx all that." Well, past Anisha, I hope you're happy because you did jinx it, you've jinx'd everything. It was after this post that we began the rollercoaster of emotions that was recursion (first interested, then depressed, then incrediblly proud, then assignment 2 and thus hate, then assignment 3 and thus happiness). It was after this post that Assignment 2 became a thing (is it becoming clear to anyone else how much I hate assignment 2?).

But it wasn't all bad. Assignment 3 actually takes me back to the same passive, netural-ness that caused the week 4 post. What I mean by that is I enjoyed Assignment 3 so much that it balanced out my hatred of Assignment 2, which is amazing.

On the other hand, my feelings or relief, exhurbance, and pride, that I described in Week 4 has only gotton worse. Or better. Either way, my point is that when I get something in this course, I just have this incredible high, which is actually a bit pathetic considering there are probably many people who do not find this material as challenging as I do. But that's okay because at least I usually do get it (except Assignment 2, but let's not talk about that).

Studying for written tests is still not fun, but I'm a bit more sympathtic as to its necessity to this course. Now I feel that perhaps one of the two midterms should be written and the other done on computers. And while, I regognize the difficulty of doing an online test, I feel that it is still worth it because it is a clearer indication of our abilities.

Overall, not much has changed, though I feel as though I personally have grown. (Ugh, the cliche of that, I apologize.)

Feeling slightly embrassed about the coloquialness of my previous posts (and this post),
- Anisha Rohra